Why Pray if God Won't Violate Human Free Will?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Flowers answers a question posed by two Calvinistic friends from the Doctrine and Devotion Podcast (Jimmy and Joe).
Why should Traditionalists pray if they do not believe God will violate human free will?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's Layton Flowers with Sotriology 101. I'm the director of apologetics for Texas |
| 0:04.6 | Baptist and want to answer some questions from the traditionalist perspective. Some Calvinists have |
| 0:10.0 | asked the question, why do you guys bother praying if you don't believe that God will violate |
| 0:15.3 | human free will? Well, actually, I want you to hear from two Calvinistic brothers, good brothers from doctrine and devotion. |
| 0:23.9 | These two guys tell you a little bit more about why they are asking this question. |
| 0:29.5 | I'll let you hear it from their own words. |
| 0:31.8 | But he talks about that, like, well, look at prayer. |
| 0:34.7 | Like, even though we may say we are, for some people that they are uh non-reformed |
| 0:41.2 | they don't believe in in um god's sovereign work in salvation right so they believe in libertarian free |
| 0:48.1 | will where i all options are open to me i can do one thing or the other and if i were to go back in time |
| 0:53.0 | i could have done something different. |
| 0:54.5 | Correct. |
| 0:55.2 | True free will. |
| 0:55.6 | Yes. |
| 0:57.6 | But yet, listen to the prayers. |
| 0:59.8 | How then are you praying for the salvation? I know how they pray. |
| 1:01.5 | Here's how they pray. |
| 1:02.3 | This is a libertarian, they go, dear Lord, I'm eager to see my friend saved, but I know |
| 1:09.4 | that you cannot violate his will. |
| 1:11.1 | No, I've never heard that. |
| 1:12.0 | No, I'm saying that you cannot compel him against his will. |
| 1:14.7 | No. |
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